widow's weeds

Etymology of Weeds

Plural of garment or cloth

wæd, wæde 

To weave

Widow's weeds, why this?

Widow's garments

Garments of mourning

I have been left 

a field of weeds.

The field is not even mine.

Yet I weave it

by hand, by mind,

spinning the real

down to a thread.

Down to a thread.

It is what is real now.

Weeds means garments.

I wear them

and let the sun rise

and reveal me

there,

dew-dropped.

Energy in a different form now.

Natural dress of the silent

on-going world.